The Saw-Horse rocked and rolled over the fields - The Marvelous Land of Oz - John R. Neill, 1904 Juvenile at Troynovant:
dawns of adventure & science fiction,
designed for a younger audience of readers & viewers;
listed by Title

Note that we are not captivated by labels and categories as may be applied in school libraries and chain bookstores. We here speak of books, stories, and films designed for an audience of teenagers or pre-teens, or particularly enjoyable by these. We are flexible, and our purpose is not to enshrine definitions but to gather works aimed at a younger audience, or particularly enjoyable by them

Generally the themes and main characters are of a pre-romantic youthfulness, though they may touch the fringes of Romance: thus we do not list below Romeo and Juliet. — Some series straddle our upper threshold: this stratum includes Tolkien's The Hobbit but not its sequel The Lord of the Rings; includes Schmitz's "Novice" but not its direct sequel "Undercurrents" or the rest of the Telzey Amberdon series.


  
Absent-Minded Professor, The Robert Stevenson / Fred MacMurray, Keenan Wynn RW Franson

Between Planets Robert A. Heinlein RW Franson

Chip, the Dam Builder Jim Kjelgaard RW Franson
Citizen of the Galaxy Robert A. Heinlein RW Franson

Death is Wrong Gennady Stolyarov II RW Franson
Derby Day Hal Roach / Our Gang RW Franson
Donald's Ostrich (Donald Duck) Disney / King RW Franson

Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper RW Franson
Freddy the Pig series Walter R. Brooks RW Franson
Freddy and the Bean Home News Walter R. Brooks RW Franson
Freddy and the Ignormus Walter R. Brooks RW Franson
Freddy the Cowboy Walter R. Brooks RW Franson
Freddy the Pilot Walter R. Brooks RW Franson
Freddy the Politician Walter R. Brooks RW Franson
Freddy's Cousin Weedly Walter R. Brooks RW Franson

Have Space Suit — Will Travel Robert A. Heinlein RW Franson
How to Govern a Kingdom Suzie Garfield RW Franson

Iceworld Hal Clement RW Franson

Little Women Louisa May Alcott C Kalescky
Lost Prince, The Frances Hodgson Burnett JM Franson

Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol Charles Dickens / Abe Levitow / Jim Backus JM Franson

Novice James H. Schmitz RW Franson

Olympic Champ, The (Goofy) Disney / Kinney RW Franson

Penrod:  His Complete Story Booth Tarkington RW Franson

Rocket Ship Galileo Robert A. Heinlein RW Franson
Rolling Stones, The Robert A. Heinlein RW Franson

Sargasso of Space Andre Norton RW Franson
Slan A. E. van Vogt RW Franson
Snow Dog Jim Kjelgaard DH Franson
Space Cadet Robert A. Heinlein RW Franson
Star Beast, The Robert A. Heinlein RW Franson
Sue Barton, Nurse series Helen Dore Boylston WH Stoddard

Vanishing Private, The (Donald Duck) Disney / King RW Franson

Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls RW Franson
  

  
[The King of Navarre's park.]

[Enter Armado the braggart, and Mote his boy]

Armado:

The way is but short. Away!

Mote:

As swift as lead, sir.

Armado:

The meaning, pretty ingenious?
Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow?

...

Mote:

            You are too swift, sir, to say so.
Is that lead slow which is fired from a gun?

Armado:

Sweet smoke of rhetoric!
He reputes me a cannon, and the bullet, that's he.
I shoot thee at the swain.

Mote:

            Thump, then, and I flee.      [Exit]

Armado:

A most acute juvenal — voluble, and free of grace.

William Shakespeare
Love's Labour's Lost, 3.1.47-58

(voluble means quick-witted, as youth always is —
ask any one.)


  
"The Saw-Horse rocked and rolled over the fields" by John R. Neill
for The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum  (1904)
at Old Book Art
  

  

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